The role of political hate speech in promoting extreme ideologies and manipulating public discourse for social approval in Pakistan.
The proliferation of politically motivated hate speech towards rival politicians has been rapidly increasing in Pakistan. However, the literature on political hate speech and its association with extreme ideologies is under‐theorized in the Pakistani context. We have utilized van Dijk's manipulative...
| Publicado en: | International Social Science Journal Vol. 74; no. 253; pp. 911 - 928 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2024
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